Advanced Skills: 16 tricks for setting Windows XP

1. Re-activating Windows XP

To reinstall Windows XP, you must reactivate it. In fact, as long as the Wpa. dbl file in the WindowsSystem32 directory is backed up during the first activation, no activation is required. After Windows XP is reinstalled, copy the file to the directory above.

2. How do I know if my Windows XP is activated?

Open start → run. In the displayed dialog box, enter oobe/msobe/a. After you press enter, the system will pop up window to show you whether the system has been activated.

3. Disable the zip folder function.

Do you think the zip folder function in Windows XP is too slow and the function is not attractive? In this case, you can open Start> Run, enter regsvr32/u zipfldr. dll in the pop-up dialog box, and press enter to disable the ZIP folder function.

4. Enable Windows XP to engrave ISO files.

Windows XP does not provide the function of directly burning ISO files, but you can download a third-party plug-in to add this function to the system. The plug-in is http://members.home.net/alexfein/is...rdersetup.msi.

5. The background changes color on the logon page.

Open Registry Editor, find [HKEY-USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelColors], change the value of Background to "0 0 0 0" (without quotation marks), so that the login Background becomes black.

6. completely uninstall XP

Some friends find that they do not like the operating system after installing Windows XP. Then, you can use Windows 98 to start the installation CD to the DOS state, and then type:

Format-ur

In this way, you can delete all XP files and reinstall Windows 98/Me.

7. System Saving

If you suspect that changes made to the computer before the system restarts may cause a failure, you can press F8 when starting the system, select "Last correct configuration" to restore the changes made to the system.

8. Restore previous hardware drivers

When a new hardware driver is installed and the system is unstable or the hardware cannot work, you only need to select the driver recover button in Device Manager, you can recover to the previous normal system status. However, the driver of the printer cannot be restored.

9. Automatic Login

Click Start → run, and enter "rundll32netplwiz. dll, UsersRunDll (without quotation marks), cancel "Users must enter a User name and password to use this computer" in user Accounts, and click "OK ", in the displayed dialog box, enter the username and password you want to log on.

10. Shortcut for quick shutdown or restart (timed)

Right-click the desktop and select new (shortcut, In the displayed wizard, enter C: WINDOWSsystem32shutdown.exe-s-t 10 (where-s can be changed to-r, that is, restart, and-t 10 indicates a delay of 10 seconds. You can change this number as needed ). After the shortcut key is created, specify an icon for it according to the above method. This quick shutdown or restart technique will display a pretty dialog box prompting you to shut down (restart), and you can add "-c" to the end to shut down! "", This sentence will be displayed in the dialog box, of course, you can write the text at will, but note that it cannot exceed 127 characters.

11. Shutdown and restart take only 1 second

If you want to instantly shut down Windows XP, press CTRL + ALT + DEL, then click "Shut Down"> "Shut Down" in the pop-up task manager, and press CTRL at the same time, in less than one second, you will find that the system has been shut down, and it is almost in the twinkling of an eye. Similarly, if you select "restart" in the "shutdown" menu, you can restart quickly.

12. Find the missing Quick Start bar

Move the mouse to the blank area of the taskbar, right-click the task bar, select "properties" from the pop-up menu, and select the "Task Bar" tab in the pop-up window, select the "show Quick Start" check box from the "Taskbar appearance" box and click "OK.

13. batch file rename

Windows XP provides the ability to rename files in batches. In resource manager, select several files, press the F2 key, and rename one of these files, in this way, all selected files will be renamed to the new file name (adding an increasing number at the end ).

14. quickly lock the computer

User32.dll, LockWorkStation ", click" Next ", enter the shortcut name in the pop-up window, and click" finish. Of course, the simplest way to lock a computer is to press WinKey + L directly.

15. Give the double-Key mouse the page rolling function

Double-click the mouse icon in the control panel. In the displayed "Mouse properties" dialog box, select "Start click lock" in the "Click lock" column. Click the "Settings" button. In the "Click locked Settings" dialog box that appears, set the mouse to the shortest value and click "OK" to save the settings. Open a webpage, click the scroll of the webpage, and move the mouse up and down not far from the scroll of the webpage to implement this function. Click the scroll of the webpage again to disable this function.

16. read English letters for Windows XP

Find the "Speaker" program in the "Auxiliary Tools" group, click the "sound" button, go to the "sound settings" Page, set it, and save it. When you point your mouse to a dialog box with letters, menus, and buttons, you will hear a man reading English letters.